Legislative System Quotes

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

American peace is not due to the fact that we have a common executive, a Congress, and a Supreme Court, useful as all of these instruments may be. It exists because any citizen of the United States equally with any other citizen has a right in perfect freedom to pass state borders with all his family and property; to import and export from place to place within the limits of the United States any sort of property he pleases without hindrance from any state authority; to gain access to and from the seas without any local interference whatsoever.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.